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President Hugo Chavez Has Died
Associated Press ^ | 3/5/2013 | AP

Posted on 03/05/2013 1:59:16 PM PST by wideawake

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To: Jane Long

ordinary people (non-Texans) might not know the origin of your Freeper name...

From a internet search...

Orphaned at the age of fourteen and widowed at twenty-four, Jane Wilkinson Long led a long and hard life. But her independent and determined character earned for her the title “Mother of Texas.”

Long was born Jane Wilkinson on July 23, 1798 in Charles County, Maryland. Her father died when she was less that one year old. In 1811, she moved with her mother to Mississippi Territory. When her mother died the following year, Jane went to live with her older sister near Natchez.

In early 1815, Jane met James Long, a physician who had come to Natchez following his participation as a surgeon at the Battle of New Orleans. By May of that year they were married and by November of the following year the couple had their first child.

By 1820, Jane had joined her husband at Bolivar Point, a peninsula opposite Galveston Island, where they established an outpost in an effort to help free Texas from Spanish rule. When James Long left Bolivar Point on an excursion in September of 1821, Jane was expecting another child. She stayed behind and vowed to remain at the fort until his return. The plan failed, however, when James was and captured and later “accidentally” killed in Mexico City.

Unaware of her husband’s fate, Jane steadfastly remained at Bolivar Point through the winter of 1821-1822. The few other inhabitants left the fort as supplies ran out. Along with a twelve year old servant and her six year old daugthter, Jane stubbornly survived on dwindling supplies of corn meal, salted fish and osyters scavanged from the bay. As Jane later reported, the trio kept nearby Indians at a safe distance by a ruse designed to give the illusion that the fort was still protected by soldiers. On December 21 in an ice covered tent, Jane gave birth to Mary James Long.

Jane’s ordeal ended the following March when a friend of her husband persuaded her to leave Bolivar Point. And after a few years, she began a remarkable comeback.

By 1832, Long opened a successful hotel in Brazoria, then a primary port for newly arriving emigrants. The hotel soon became a focal point for social and political activities in Texas. In 1835 when Stephen Austin returned from eighteen months of imprisonment in Mexico, a dinner and ball was held at her hotel in his honor.

Throughout her long and active life in Texas, Jane became the object of many admirers and some would-be suitors. These included no less notable Texans than Ben Milam, William Travis, Stephen Austin, Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar. She rejected all offers of matrimony, however, and died a widow of James Long on December 30, 1880.

Jane Long is buried at Richmond, Texas. On her gravestone is inscribed “Mrs. Jane H. Long, The Mother of Texas.”


241 posted on 03/05/2013 3:46:19 PM PST by CenTex (November 6, 2012... A day that will live in infamy!!!)
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To: Biggirl

Sometimes not soon enough. But I am so ready.


242 posted on 03/05/2013 3:46:51 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

So now she’s got rabies, too?


243 posted on 03/05/2013 3:47:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: wideawake

244 posted on 03/05/2013 3:49:10 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: wideawake
The left mourns.


245 posted on 03/05/2013 3:53:53 PM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: wideawake

246 posted on 03/05/2013 3:54:00 PM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: wideawake

I smell sulfur! Give my regards to Satan you miserable piece of human debris!


247 posted on 03/05/2013 3:57:03 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: Williams

I’m not sure Hell is bad enough for what he deserves!


248 posted on 03/05/2013 3:58:35 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: wideawake

A bright spot in an otherwise dismal week.


249 posted on 03/05/2013 3:59:43 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel
 photo viva_chavez.jpg

No more good times for Shee-hag...

250 posted on 03/05/2013 4:01:16 PM PST by mikrofon (Tequila Tart)
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To: wideawake

If Barack Obama had a brother he’d be Hugo Chavez


251 posted on 03/05/2013 4:03:05 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: wideawake

I kid you not. About 80% of those on DU are mourning his death!


252 posted on 03/05/2013 4:05:07 PM PST by MNDude (Guns don't kill people, Democrats kill people)
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To: wideawake

Mazel tov!


254 posted on 03/05/2013 4:08:27 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Friendofgeorge
I keep hearing today that he was a friend to the poor and that the poor people of his country all loved him, that according to CNN Doug Brinkley.

"Happens all the time, I’m afraid. It happened during the Stalin years, The phenomenon then was called “if only Stalin knew,” and was predicated on the belief that the bad stuff was happening outside of Stalin’s awareness and orchestrated by his underlings, and that if only Good Old Joe knew about it he’d stop it."

Link: http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/08/advising-obama-if-only-stalin-knew/

255 posted on 03/05/2013 4:09:12 PM PST by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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To: wideawake
Good riddance.

Is there any chance Obama could be convinced to move to Venezuela and succeed him?

256 posted on 03/05/2013 4:14:16 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; Charles Henrickson; PJ-Comix

Oh my, there are some comedy gold comments tehre.
Post 37 and the responses to it.


257 posted on 03/05/2013 4:16:41 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: wideawake
May El Presidente de Columbia RIP. Some poor fool is having chemo tainted Soylent Green tomorrow. Lo siento.
258 posted on 03/05/2013 4:18:08 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: dead

Here was the *real* kiss of death...

259 posted on 03/05/2013 4:18:58 PM PST by mikrofon (Next......)
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To: Secret Agent Man

chavez = puto muerto


260 posted on 03/05/2013 4:19:30 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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